monstalove:

Ghibli esque fairy tale #2

winter is always an awful time for your village and there is strict rules in place so that death doesn’t find its way to them. Each night belongs to the yuki-onna and  you don’t have a choice one night you have to run away from all the awfulness inside your own home and you can’t bring yourself to care about what happens next as long as you don’t die there you know you can find peace. you leave without shoes but your will to leave gets you past the border of the village and you wonder why nothing has happened to you yet. The moon is bright and you want to lay down and forget the pain running through you you think your wish is about to come true. There’s an otherworldly singing and you think it’s death herself going to take you away. When you wake it’s not the other side but it’s still far away from the world you know. A whole plate of fresh food is on the bedside and after spending a moment contemplating everything you take a strawberry before going to investigate your surroundings. It’s a big empty house with lovely but plain essentials. It’s outside you find the lady of the house and that gut feeling of not being in your own world is confirmed even more everything is too vivid. Your host has an area of ice and snow always surrounding her and even with the scars and blood scattered across her you still think she’s the most prettiest lady you have ever seen. “This is limbo and there’s no more paths you can travel on …. So I am giving you a choice today.” Her stare is distant and you guess that you’ve been here too many times to count. Your soul has been many people with hundreds of lives and you seek something that hasn’t been fulfilled in any of them. The memories come back to you in an odd way and it gives you the answer “Is there going to be an opening to be by your side? It’s such a shame your last assistant left you to do all this work….”. Your scared you had lost your chance forever until there’s that tiny smile “ To be fair it was never their fault for leaving im just glad they came back to me eventually” the flowers begin to bloom closer to her feet and the temp rises ever so slightly beside her. You started your lives with each other millions of years ago and within time you’d end it together as well